He has made new technology work where other people had to depend on it.

For 51 years, clients have paid Howard Pearlmutter to connect technology with working software and human understanding. Through companies he founded, he has completed more than 200 engagements. His development and consulting clients include NASA, Apple, Disney, Xerox, HP, Kodak, CBS, Fujitsu, CSC, Capital One, Symantec, and the Financial Times. Organizations have also paid him to present to professionals from IBM, AT&T, Sun Microsystems, Intel, BT British Telecom, T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, NASA Ames, Xerox PARC, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays across five continents.

GM and Ford needed complex factory designs made visible so their executives could approve; Howard built the animated virtual reality web signoff system. Valtech repeatedly trusted him to teach demanding enterprise-architecture audiences. His work reaches from extensible-language products and MIT supercomputer research to parallel computing for NASA Ames and current AI-assisted prototypes. At Telos Alliance, his custom AI-for-product-development seminar drew 47 people where about 20 were expected. Client president John Schur said Howard addressed skeptics and wrote, “I felt that Telos received multiple times the value of our investment.”

He has crossed the same kinds of boundaries AI4DEV asks participants to navigate: between an emerging tool and dependable work, between a technical model and a person who must understand it, and between specialties that need to act together.

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